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Show ELECTRIC LIGHT Hi POWER PRICES ADVANCED BY COUNCIL ON TUB An adjourned session of tho city council was held TueA' n.K.it, the special order of business beinff the consideration " now oporntlnir contract for the municipal light, power nnd p HiK plant for the romnindor of tills year. The contract for operating and maintaining the electric If Plant having expired some time ago, J. II. Mnnson appeared Mf the counc I on June 19th and asked to be released from any ftBJ loniKin.ibility unions he was assured of nay commensurate $ the present high cost oflaUor and materials. After carefully inquiring into the matter the council find-tt uie cot of fuel has almost doubled in price; wages have bee eroaso, 15 por cont( U)e cot q( reW Jil sofnrth has advanced from 25 to GO per cent, nnd the if of MHnron seemed reasonable and just in every sense. AccorfJ lj a motion prevailed thnt a new contract be drawn for M per month, an increase over the present one of about two hundr nd sovonty-five dollars a month. native That KL'""'018011, exPnB0 tho cminc11 hnd ut onn3.iS his effeif t a",k ft r,lifi?,in t,,e 8ervlt'o schedule, and a motion Tli So t'U.prrt y t,,c ""nimouH vote of rounc I. ous rates for S'"1,1 ,our; ""Wence, twelve cents, and the J |